Paul picks Spain! The 'oracle octopus' makes his prediction for the World Cup final... will he be right for the eighth time?

 

ႀကက္တူေရြးနဲ ့ေရဘ၀ဲ ....ဘယ္သူမွန္မလဲ....

ကမာၻ ့ဖလားပဲြကုိ စပိန္နုိင္မယ္ဆုိပဲ....ေရဘ၀ဲေလးရဲ ့ခန္ ့မွန္းခ်က္မွန္နုိင္ၿပီလား...

 

ဂ်ာမနီကန္တဲ ့ပဲြေပါင္းေၿခာက္ပဲြ မွန္ေအာင္ခန္ ့မွန္းေပးနုိင္ခဲ ့တဲ ့ေရဘ၀ဲေလး ေပါလ္...
ဒီပံုမွာေတာ ့ဂ်ာမနီကုိမေရြးပဲ စပိန္ကုိေရြးခဲ ့လို ့စပိန္နုိင္သြားခဲ ့တယ္ေပါ ့...

 Soothsayer of the seas: Paul the octopus has correctly predicted the outcome of all six of Germany's World Cup matches

နာမည္ေက်ာ္ ေရဘ၀ဲေလးက ကမာၻ ့ဖလားၿပဳိင္ပဲြရဲ ့အဆံုးအၿဖတ္ကုိခန္ ့မွန္းေရြးခ်ယ္ေပးေနခဲ ့တာ
အခုဆုိေနာက္ဆံုး ႏွစ္ပဲြ ( ဖုိင္နယ္နဲ ့တတိယေနရာလုပဲြေတြ ) အတြက္လည္း ခန္ ့မွန္းေပးခဲ ့လုိက္
ၿပန္ပါၿပီ...
သူဟာဂ်ာမနီအသင္းကန္ခဲ ့တဲ ့ကမာၻ ့ဖလားေဘာလံုးပဲြ ေၿခာက္ပဲြလံုးရဲ ့ရလာဒ္ေတြကုိအံ ့ႀသစရာ
ေကာင္းေလာက္ေအာင္ မွန္ကန္စြာခန္ ့မွန္းေပးနုိင္ခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...

 

ဂ်ာမန္အသင္းကုိ တတိယေနရာရမယ္လုိ ့ခန္ ့မွန္းေရြးခ်ယ္ေပးေနတဲ ့ေရဘ၀ဲေလး ေပါလ္...

Das ist wunderbar: Great news for Germany as Paul backs them to finish third

သူ ့ရဲ ့ခုနွစ္ခုေၿမာက္ေရြးခ်ယ္မွဳအၿဖစ္ တတိယေနရာကုိေတာ ့ဂ်ာမဏီအသင္း အနုိင္ရမွာၿဖစ္ၿပီး
ေနာက္ဆံုးအေရးႀကီးဆံုးၿဖစ္တဲ ့ ရွစ္ခုေၿမာက္ေရြးခ်ယ္ခဲ ့ရာမွာ ေနာက္ဆံုးဗုိလ္လုပဲြမွာေတာ ့စပိန္
အသင္းကမာၻ ့ဖလားကုိဆြတ္ခူးသြားလိမ္ ့မယ္လို ့ေရဘ၀ဲေလးက ခန္ ့မွန္းေပးလိုက္ၿပန္ပါၿပီ....

စပိန္တုိ ့နုိင္မယ္လို ့ေရြးခ်ယ္ခန္ ့မွန္းေနတဲ ့ေရဘ၀ဲေလး ေပါလ္...

Viva Espana! Paul the octopus chooses Spain over the Netherlands as the 2010 World Cup champions today

ေရဘ၀ဲေလး ေပါလ္ ကုိ ၂၀၀၆ ခုႏွစ္မွာ ေ၀းေမာက္ နယ္မွာေမြးဖြားခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ၿပီး ယင္းဟာ ယခုအခါ
မွာေတာ ့ဂ်ာမနီနုိင္ငံ အုိဘာဟုိစင္ ၿမဳိ ့ရဲ ့ေရေႀကာင္းၿပတုိက္မွာေရာက္ေနပါတယ္...

သူဟာ ဂ်ာမနီအသင္းနွင္ ့ယွဥ္ၿပဳိင္ကစားမယ့္အသင္းေတြရဲ ့အလံနွင့္ဂ်ာမနီအလံထည္ ့ထားတဲ ့မွန္ပံုး
ကေလးေတြထဲက ဂံုးေကာင္ကုိ အနုိင္ရမယ္ ့အသင္းရဲ ့ပံုးထဲကဂံုးေကာင္ကုိေရြးခ်ယ္ခဲ ့ၿခင္းၿဖင္ ့ေဘာ
လံုးပဲြစဥ္ရလာဒ္ေတြကုိ မွန္ကန္စြာခန္ ့မွန္းေပးနုိင္ခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...

သူဟာ ယူရုိ ၂၀၀၈ ပဲြစဥ္ေတြမွာတုန္းကလည္းအခုလုိမ်ဴိး ေဘာလံုးပဲြရလာဒ္ေတြကို ခန္ ့မွန္းေပးခဲ ့ပါ
ေသးတယ္...
ထုိစဥ္တုန္းကေတာ ့သူေရြးခ်ယ္ခန္ ့မွန္းခဲ ့တဲ ့ေၿခာက္ပဲြမွာ ေလးပဲြရဲ ့ရလာဒ္ေတြမွန္ကန္ခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
သခ်ာၤပညာရွင္ေတြကေတာ ့ေၿခာက္ပဲြဆက္တုိက္မွန္ကန္ေအာင္ခန္ ့မွန္းေရြးခ်ယ္နုိင္မွဳရဲ ့ၿဖစ္နုိင္ေခ်
မွန္ကန္မွဳဟာ ၀.၅ ရာခုိင္နွံဳး သို ့မဟုတ္ ၂၁၆ ႀကိမ္ မွာ ၁ ႀကိမ္သာ မွန္ကန္နုိင္ပါတယ္လုိ ့တြက္ခ်က္
ၿပထားႀကပါတယ္...

ေရဘ၀ဲေလး မွားပါေစလုိ ့ဆုေတာင္းခဲ ့ႀကေပမယ္ ့စပိန္နဲ ့ပဲြမွာ ဂ်ာမနီရံွဳးနိမ္ ့သြားခဲ ့ရပါတယ္...

Wrong: Germany supporters hold up a banner referring to Paul the octopus at Wednesday's match with Spain. The 0-1 result was successfully predicted by Paul

ေရဘ၀ဲေလးဟာ မွန္ကန္စြာခန္ ့မွန္းေပးနုိင္မွဳေႀကာင္ ့ဂ်ာမနီ ( အခုေတာ ့တစ္ကမာၻလံုးေပါ ့ေလ...)
အလြန္ကိုပဲ နာမည္ေက်ာ္ႀကားလာခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...
အခုေတာ ့သူ ့ရဲ ့ေအာင္ၿမင္ေက်ာ္ႀကားမွဳဒါဏ္ကုိ သူၿပန္ခံရေတာ ့မလုိၿဖစ္ေနပါေတာ ့တယ္....
အာဂ်င္တီးနားအသင္း ဂ်ာမနီကုိရွဳံးနိမ္ ့ခဲ ့ရၿပီးေနာက္ပုိင္းမွာ အာဂ်င္တီးနားနုိင္ငံသားေတြက ဒီေရဘ
၀ဲေလးကုိ ဖမ္းၿပီး သတ္ၿပစ္ကာ အာလူးနဲ ့ခ်က္စားၿပစ္မယ္လုိ ့ၿခိမ္းေၿခာက္ခဲ ့ႀကပါတယ္...
အခုေနာက္ဆံုးဂ်ာမန္ေတြကေတာင္ ေရဘ၀ဲေလးကုိ စိတ္နာလို ့အုိဘာဟုိစင္ၿမဳိ ့က စားေသာက္ဆုိင္
ေတြအေနနဲ ့ဒီေရဘ၀ဲ ေလးကုိမီးကင္ၿပီး အစားအစာအၿဖစ္ေရာင္းခ်သင္ ့ေနၿပီလို ့ဆုိေနႀကပါၿပီ....

စပိန္ေတြကေတာ ့ေ၇ဘ၀ဲေလး မွန္ပါေစလို ့ဆုေတာင္းခဲ ့တာ ေတာင္းဆုၿပည္ ့သြားတယ္ေလ...

Right sign: A Spain fan (right) holds up a banner reading 'Germans, the Octopus' prediction will come true'

ေရဘ၀ဲေလး ေပါလ္ အေနနဲ ့ဘယ္လုိမ်ားေဘာပဲြ အနုိင္အရွဳံးကိုေရြးခ်ယ္ခန္ ့မွန္းေပးနုိင္သလဲဆုိတာ
ကိုေတာ ့ယွဥ္ၿပဳိင္ႀကတဲ ့နုိင္ငံေတြရဲ ့အလံေတြရဲ ့ပုံသ႑ာန္နွင္ ့သက္ဆုိင္ပါတယ္လို ့ပညာရွင္ေတြက
ရွင္းၿပထားပါတယ္...

အခုေတာ ့အသက္ေလးႏွစ္ ( ဆ၇ာေလးကုိသက္တန္ ့ကေတာ ့ေရဘ၀ဲေလးရဲ ့အသက္ကုိ ၂ ႏွစ္လုိ ့
ဆုုိထားပါတယ္...) ရွိၿပီၿဖစ္တဲ ့ေ၇ဘ၀ဲေလးအတြက္ ( သူ တုိ ့သက္တမ္းအတြက္ ) အသက္ႀကီးေန
ၿပီၿဖစ္လုိ ့ပါပဲ...
သဘာ၀ပင္လယ္ၿပင္ေရေအာက္မွာပင္လွ်င္ သူ ့အေနနွင္ ့ေနာက္ထပ္ႏွစ္ႏွစ္ ထက္ပုိမေနရေတာ ့ပါ
ဘူးလို ့ဆုိပါတယ္..
ဒါေႀကာင္ ့ေနာက္တစ္ႀကိမ္က်င္းပမယ္ ့ကမာၻ ့ဖလားေဘာလံုးပဲြကိုေတာ ့ေရဘ၀ဲေလး ခန္ ့မွန္းနုိင္ရွာ
ေတာ ့မွာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး...
ကဲ....
သူ ့ရဲ ့ခန္ ့မွန္းခ်က္မွန္ မမွန္ကေတာ ့ေနာက္ဆံုးပဲြစဥ္ေတြၿပီးမွပဲသိနုိင္ေတာ ့မွာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...

 

 ႀကက္တူေရြးေလး မာနီကေတာ ့ ေဟာ္လန္ နုိင္မယ္လုိ ့ခန္ ့မွန္းလုိက္ၿပန္ပါၿပီ...

Counter-prediction: Mani the 'psychic parakeet' picks Holland  today as owner M Muniyappan looked on

အခုေနာက္ထပ္ဖတ္ရတဲ ့သတင္းအရ ေရဘ၀ဲေလးေပါလ္ ရဲ ့ခန္ ့မွန္းခ်က္နဲ ့ဆန္ ့က်င္ၿပီး စကၤာပူနုိင္ငံ
ကေရွ ့ၿဖစ္ ( ေဗဒင္ ) ေဟာတဲ ့ႀကက္တူေရြးေလး မာနီ ကေတာ ့ကမာၻ ့ဖလားဆုကုိ ေဟာ္လန္ (နယ္
သာလန္ )အသင္းက ဆြတ္ခူးရရွိလိမ္ ့မယ္လို ့ေရြးခ်ယ္ခန္ ့မွန္းေပးခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

၎ရဲ ့ပုိင္ရွင္ၿဖစ္သူရဲ ့အဆုိအရ လြန္ခဲ ့တဲ ့ပဲြစဥ္ ငါးခုစလံုးကုိ မွန္ေအာင္ေရြးခ်ယ္ခန္ ့မွန္းနုိင္ခဲ ့တဲ ့
ႀကက္တူေရြးေလး မာနီ ဟာလာမယ္ ့တနဂၤေႏြေန ့မွာကန္မယ္ ့ပဲြမွာ ေဟာ္လန္နုိင္ငံက အနုိင္ရလိမ္ ့
မယ္လုိ ့ေရြးခ်ယ္ခန္ ့မွန္းခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...
အခုလိုတိရိစာၧႏွစ္ေကာင္ရဲ ့အားၿပဳိင္မွဳမွာ ဂ်ာမန္ေတြအေနနဲ ့ကေတာ ့အုပ္စုႏွစ္စုကဲြေနနုိင္ပါတယ္....
တစ္စုကေတာ ့စပိန္အသင္းနဲ ့ကစားခဲ ့ရတဲ ့ဆီမီးဖုိင္နယ္ပဲြမွာသူတုိ ့နုိင္ငံေဘာလံုးအသင္းကုိ ရွဳံးနိမ္ ့
ေစေအာင္ခန္ ့မွန္းေရြးခ်ယ္ခဲ ့လို ့ေရဘ၀ဲေလးေပါလ္ ကုိမီးကင္ၿပီးႀကက္သြန္နဲ ့စားပစ္ခ်င္သူေတြၿဖစ္ၿပီး
ေနာက္အုပ္စုတစ္ခုကေတာ ့ဘာပဲၿဖစ္ၿဖစ္သူတုိ ့ဂ်ာမနီနုိင္ငံမွ ေရဘ၀ဲေလးဟာ စကၤာပူက နာမည္ေက်ာ္
ႀကက္တူေရြး မာနီ ကုိအနုိင္ယူၿပီးကမာၻ ့ဖလားေဘာလံုးၿပဳိင္ပဲြရဲ ့ေနာက္ဆံုးပဲြစဥ္ေတြအထိ မွန္ကန္ေအာင္
ခန္ ့မွန္းေရြးခ်ယ္ေပးနုိင္တယ္ဆုိတဲ ့ဂုဏ္ကုိရခ်င္တဲ ့သူေတြၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...

တိရိစာၧန္တစ္ေကာင္ရဲ ့အၿပဳအမူက လူအုပ္စုတစ္ခုရဲ ့ကံႀကမၼာကုိအဆံုးအၿဖတ္ေပးနုိင္တာကုိသေဘာ
မက်ေပမယ္ ့လည္း အခုတစ္ကမာၻလံုးနီးပါးအာရံုစုိက္ေနႀကတဲ ့အားကစားၿပဳိင္ပဲြႀကီးမွာေတာ ့ဒီေရဘ၀ဲ
ေလးေႀကာင္ ့ပဲ အနုိင္ရသင္ ့တဲ ့ဂ်ာမနီအသင္းဟာ ဖိအားေတြ၊ စိတ္လွဳပ္ရွားမွဳေတြကုိ မထိန္းခ်ဴပ္နုိင္၊
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• He predicts Germany will be Uruguay for third place

What has eight legs but no backbone? No, not the England team's lily-livered defence.
It's Paul the octopus - who, incredibly, has correctly predicted the outcome of all six of Germany's World Cup matches. 

As if the pressure wasn't already more than any mollusc should ever have to bear, he has also been issued with a challenge from an unexpected quarter - Mani, Singapore's psychic parakeet.

Mani - who has, according to his owner, predicted the last five games of the tournament correctly - has thrown the gauntlet down to Paul by predicting that Holland will triumph on Sunday instead.
Germans will be torn in two at the news. Half will be still be wanting to roast Paul with garlic after he predicted - correctly - that their team would lose to Spain at the semi-final.

While the other half will be hoping that Paul - who is, after all, a German octopus - will triumph against Mani, giving them some share in the glory of the World Cup final.
ိToday, during a live television broadcast, Paul predicted Germany would beat Uruguay in the third place playoff match on Saturday - his seventh prediction of the tournament.
And now he has made his eighth - and possibly the most important - prediction: that Spain will win the final. His latest success came on Wednesday night, when he forecast Spain would defeat the Germans in the semi-final.
Paul was born in Weymouth in 2006 but now resides in Germany's Oberhausen's Sea Life Aquarium.
He predicts matches by choosing to eat a mussel from boxes emblazoned with the flags of the German team and its rivals.
In the group stages, he correctly predicted German victories over Australia and Ghana and the country's loss to Serbia.

England and Argentina then produced spineless performances in the next two rounds to ensure that Paul's predictions that Germany would win came to pass. Then came Germany's defeat to Spain.
Paul first started predicting matches during the 2008 European Championships, when four out of his six choices were correct.
Mathematicians have found the probability of guessing the correct result six times consecutively is less than 0.5 per cent, or 216 to 1.
Paul's soothsaying has turned him into a star in Germany. But he may well prove to be the victim of his own success.

After Argentina lost to Germany in the quarterfinal, the Argentines threatened to capture, kill him and serve him with potatoes.
Even some Germans have turned against their eight-legged oracle, suggesting Oberhausen restaurants should soon offer grilled octopus on their menus.
So how does Paul do it? According to experts, it could all be down to the shape of the competitors' flags.
'Experiments have shown that the Octopus vulgaris can distinguish brightness, size, shape, and horizontal or vertical orientation of objects.
'They are more drawn to horizontal shapes,' said Shelagh Malham, a lecturer in the School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor University.
But can they see colour? Not according to Janet Voight, associate curator of invertebrates at The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

'No, there's no evidence that octopus have colour vision. The colour red disappears ten feet under water anyway.'
So Paul can't see in colour but is drawn to bold horizontal shapes.
These are just the shapes that appear on the flags of Germany, Spain and Serbia.
But how did he pick between these flags? The German flag is quite bold but the Spanish flag has a broader yellow horizontal stripe, explaining Paul's attraction to Spain. Similarly, the Serbian flag is brighter and more vivid than the German flag.
Although octopuses cannot see specific colours, they can determine differences in hue and brightness. These are probably the factors that led to Paul choosing the teams he did.
But he'll need to cash in on his success soon. At the age of four Paul is unusually old for an octopus, which, in the wild, don't usually live much past two years.
This story may not have legs for much longer. . .